Taxpayers' money should be spent at home

While I can sympathize with the protesters in Washington, who are concerned about the government spending too much of the taxpayers’ money, my question is, where have these same people been during the last eight years when our government was committing taxpayers to spend more than $2.5 trillion (by many estimates) in our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan?

Why is it OK to spend money to invade countries and blow people up and have our own killed and maimed, but it’s not OK to take care of our own here in this country?

While I am not in favor of increased taxes or more debt, if we are going to spend my tax dollars, I would far rather it be for health care, education and other benign domestic programs rather than to feed our military addiction.